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Norman Rockwell 1894 - 1978
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description
- Norman Rockwell
- Boy and Shopkeeper: Gone on Business
- signed Norman Rockwell (lower right)
- oil and pencil on board mounted on board
- 31 by 30 inches
- (78.7 by 76.2 cm)
- Executed in 1960.
Provenance
Private Collection
Luke A. Heese, Newport Beach, California, 1965 (by descent from the above; sold Sotheby's, New York, March 10, 1993, lot 171, illustrated)
American Illustrators Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)
The Lefevre Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994
Luke A. Heese, Newport Beach, California, 1965 (by descent from the above; sold Sotheby's, New York, March 10, 1993, lot 171, illustrated)
American Illustrators Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)
The Lefevre Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994
Literature
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. I, no. A161, p. 329, illustrated
Catalogue Note
Norman Rockwell was commissioned to illustrate the Brown & Bigelow Four Seasons Calendars from 1948 through 1964. Each year, the calendar had one central theme for which four separate illustrations were made, one for each season. Rockwell's 1960 series told the story of a young redheaded boy who was apprenticing for a local shopkeeper.